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Last night’s X Factor final peaked with more than 17.5 million viewers soon before Matt Cardle was crowned king of this year’s series.

ITV1’s hour-long live episode of Corrie – to mark the soap’s 50th anniversary – attracted a peak audience of more than 13.5 million viewers between 8pm and 9pm last night.

In response to John Billett’s comment on CRR (and Marshall’s age, hearing and understanding), Jim Marshall begs to differ…

Total television revenues were up across the board in October, with just one exception – Channel 5.

BBC One won the peak ratings throughout most of last night’s prime time line-up, seeing off competition from ITV1’s UEFA Champions League coverage in the process.

In response to Jim Marshall’s TV Summit write-up John Billett, director and owner of Johnbillett.com, says the operation of agency deals means CRR acts as a barrier to entry for smaller buyers and as a protection for the larger agency…

Raymond Snoddy wonders what Nick Shott will make of ‘Channel 6’. “Is it a cunning attempt to launch a new national channel by the back door? I think we can assume that neither Kelvin MacKenzie nor L!VE TV (or even topless darts) have anything to do with this latest plan, though history rarely repeats itself in such a perfect way”…

Coronation Street’s week-long 50th anniversary celebration continued to woo viewers; with last night’s post-tram crash show attracting a peak audience of more than 11.2 million viewers.

Jim Marshall wonders whether MediaTel’s recent TV Summit makes the case for scaling up to a full TV Conference now – the sort of TV conference that used to happen in Monte Carlo and Barcelona some years ago when everything was less complicated, more profitable and more profligate…

In response to Raymond Snoddy’s column ‘CRR: “Something must be done about the current state of sterility”‘, David Spon-Smith, consultant at Accenture, believes there is no need to single out ITV any longer…